Should you contact your interviewers before your interview?

[rbear91]

I recently received my list of professors who will be interviewing me. Out of 5, four are people that I specifically mentioned in my SOP, though I only established contact with one of them before turning in my application. Now that I know for sure that I will be meeting with some of my POI's, would it be a good idea to send them a brief email saying something along the lines that I'm looking forward to meeting them soon and learning more about their research?

 

Thanks!

[rising_star]

There's really no need to. They know you're going to be interviewing with them and that's going to be due to overlapping research interests. What you'd be doing is sending a pointless email to be added to the flood of emails they get each day.